Posts Tagged ‘Virginia International Academy’

The Virginia International Academy students completed their final painting for this semester. It was a beautiful winter snow scene…and they all did a great job. These young ladies studied composition and color mixing over the past few months.

For a couple of years now we’ve been asked to work with international students who attend Virginia International Academy in Front Royal. These four students are all from China and yesterday we had our first session….without electricity due to the windy weather. Even without lights we created color wheels and discussed color mixing and painted these nice little sketches using just three colors- Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light, and Cadmium Red Medium plus a little Titanium White. Pretty good for just three colors in about 30 minutes! Looking forward to working with these students for several more weeks.

I only have a couple of sessions left with the students from Virginia International Academy so I gave them their choice of what to paint and they requested the evening river scene from a previous Paint Party. They did a great job. They’ll be leaving soon and I’m glad that we got to work with them even for a few months at The Studio.

Over the past few weeks I have been working with students from the Virginia International Academy. VIA is full immersion boarding school for ESL high school students preparing them to enter mainstream academic programs. (You can read more about it here). These students want to go on to study some form of art eventually so they come to The Studio for lessons for 10 weeks while attending VIA. They did a fabulous job on our painting of this craggy old tree.

Yesterday we started our classes with Virginia International Academy students. We will be exploring all types of painting. We worked on the color wheel and color mixing as well as started a painting in acrylic. This will be fun!